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Can someone please explain his man's popularity other than the macho Scarface rise and fall story?

>appoints Joseph Fouché as head of secret police, even though the guy is a murderous psychopath

>executes the Duke d'Enghien on barely any evidence, enraging the monarchs of Europe who might have tolerated him otherwise

>reinstitutes slavery when all the our nations are doing away with it, and even the Pope is vocally against it


>treats the Pope like garbage for no other reason that he likes to be a jerk

>Pope in return asks for Napoleon's life to be spared after his capture, and helps his mother

>precipitates the rise of nationalism outside of France

>invades Russia for no reason other than Poland, because he's banging Countess Marie Walewska (who said it was horrible and only did it to get him to side with Poland)

>loses many of his strategic plans (Egypt, Spain, Russia, Continental System)

>his greatest win, Austerlitz, is not a battle he could possibly have lost, he had far, far superior organization and equipment to his adversaries

>for same random reason, loves Islam even though he doesn't know anything about it and is just being an Orientalist

What gives?
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The biggest meme is the modern revolutionboos masturbating to this guy even though he recreated the very thing revolution was striving to abolish.
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>>1163431

And what was that
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>>1163510
Monarchism.
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>>1163510
The monarchy.
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Voltaire+Rousseau = Marx
Louis XVI = Nicholas II
Robespierre = Trotsky
Napoleon = Stalin
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>>1163550
Except even Stalin didn't use the title "Czar".
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>>1163431
What revolutionboos ?
I am one and I'm French and I'm of the common opinion that this guy was a tyrant and a scourge for the Europeans.
If, despite him not having that ambition, he had succeeded in uniting Europe, maybe we could forgive him. But he failed and we don't.
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>>1163560
Yeah, not even Stalin was that audacious. On the other hand he went back to tzarist policies, ended korenizatsya and went back to russification, embraced autocratic rule, recreated many imperial honors (Order of Suvorov, order of Alexander Nevsky), removed Jews from the NKVD, etc
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>>1163596
Actually was more friendly to the Church than Bonaparte was, at least after WWII
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*Max Stirner
*Karl Marx
*Fredrick Nietzsche
*Saint Augustine
*David Hume
*Origin
*Origin's penis
*Zoroastrianism
*All metaphysics not made by Christians
*Gnostism
*Sex
*Thomas Aquinas
*Napoleon

What else I am missing?
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>>1163970
Parmenides
Heraclitus
Spinoza

In fact, pretty much all major philosophers. My favorite philosophers are Boethius, Confucious, Laotzi, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. I would even dislike Kierkegaard if it weren't for top theology of freewill.
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>>1163414
>appoints Joseph Fouché as head of secret police, even though the guy is a murderous psychopath
Fouche did nothing wrong.That was also the guy who was one of the masterminds behind the coup that brought Napoleon to power and then held his empire together.

>executes the Duke d'Enghien on barely any evidence, enraging the monarchs of Europe
That was Talleyrands doing, not Napoleons.

>reinstitutes slavery when all the our nations are doing away with it
at the same time the only nigger who ever got a leading military position in the civilized wolrd served in the french army.

>treats the Pope like garbage
Google the concordat of 1801. Besides, he even gave the Pope the Papal States back. Its not his fault that the pope didnt learn his lessons and allied yet again with the anti-french coalitions. Rome is also rightfully french clay, right, so nothing wrong with annexing it.

>precipitates the rise of nationalism outside of France
and that is bad why?

>invades Russia for no reason
Russia broke the continental system and prepared its own war of aggression against poland. The invasion of 1812 was fully justified.

>his greatest win, Austerlitz, is not a battle he could possibly have lost, he had far, far superior organization and equipment to his adversaries
What the hell are you talking about? His army was overextended like hell, tired and outnumbered. They also had the same equipment like his enemies. Its a battle he should have lost.

>for same random reason, loves Islam even though he doesn't know anything about it and is just being an Orientalist
He didnt care about religion at all. Its just that he had just occupied egypt and of course pronounced how much he loves islam to get the sandniggers there to calm down.
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>>1164009
You really ought to stay away from philosophy. It's deteriorating you.
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>>1163414
You really don't like him do you? You've been rambling on about him in every thread on the man, what is your point? That he is overrated? Because he isn't.
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>>1163414
>appoints Joseph Fouché as head of secret police, even though the guy is a murderous psychopath

>executes the Duke d'Enghien on barely any evidence, enraging the monarchs of Europe who might have tolerated him otherwise
He actually made a mistake there, he has acknowlegded it and said it was one of his big mistakes

>reinstitutes slavery when all the our nations are doing away with it, and even the Pope is vocally against it
He reinstates it only in parts of the colonies, Haiti.


>treats the Pope like garbage for no other reason that he likes to be a jerk
He needed to make both the catholics in his country happy and the anti-theists, treating the pope in a jerk way was the best course of action according to many historians.

>Pope in return asks for Napoleon's life to be spared after his capture, and helps his mother
Napoleon was not anti-catholic, he used them as he used other factions in his empire, the pope knew that without napoleon there would probably have been an anti-catholic in power in France.

>precipitates the rise of nationalism outside of France
Nationalism was considered a key part of kicking over the old order.

>invades Russia for no reason other than Poland, because he's banging Countess Marie Walewska (who said it was horrible and only did it to get him to side with Poland)
He had lots of more reasons (you mention the continental system further on for one).

>loses many of his strategic plans (Egypt, Spain, Russia, Continental System)
Wins even more

>his greatest win, Austerlitz, is not a battle he could possibly have lost, he had far, far superior organization and equipment to his adversaries
Who organised that shit? Who made sure the equipment was superior? Napoleon and his government.

>for same random reason, loves Islam even though he doesn't know anything about it and is just being an Orientalis
Orientalism was the fad of it's day. In the decades after the Napoleonic wars it would become popular in most of Europe.
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>>1163414
He's essentially just another Hitler. Give it some time and people will revere Hitler in the same way. It's already happening actually.
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>>1163414
Have you graduated from TCD yet?
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>>1163431
>the revolution was trying to abolish monarchy
dum dum
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